Books by Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin)

Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Powell is one of the world's leading Homer scholars. In HOMER AND THE ORIGIN OF THE GREEK ALPHABET (Cambridge, 1991) he advanced the radical thesis that the Greek alphabet was designed specifically to record the text of Homer, a thesis that has now been widely accepted by the scholarly community and was the subject of a conference in Berlin in 2008. In 2009 he published his own Greek edition of the poems, ILIAS, ODYSSEY (Chester River Press), to accompany Alexander Pope's translation of the poems.